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Chemical separations by nanoporous crystalline samples of syndiotactic polystyrene

Gaetano Guerra

Gaetano Guerra

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

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Giuseppe Milano

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Giuseppe Milano

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy Luigi Cavallo, Claudio De RosaSearch for more papers by this author
Vincenzo Venditto

Vincenzo Venditto

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

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Fausta Loffredo

Fausta Loffredo

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

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Odda Ruiz De Ballesteros

Odda Ruiz De Ballesteros

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

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Luigi Cavallo

Luigi Cavallo

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

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Claudio De Rosa

Claudio De Rosa

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Napoli, via Mezzocannone 4, 80134 Napoli, Italy

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First published: 04 March 2011
Citations: 9

Abstract

Chemical separations based on absorption phenomena into syndiotactic polystyrene samples including a nanoporous crystalline phase are described. These separation phenomena are due to the presence into the crystalline phase of cavities whose size and shape have been studied through sorption experiments relative to linear hydrocarbons and through calculation procedures relative to the available crystalline structures of different polymorphic and clathrate forms of syndiotactic polystyrene.

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